Tournaments - Jousts, Chivalry and Pageants in the Middle Ages
Author(s): Richard Barber; Juliet Barker
"Will appeal to a wide audience. It is beautifully presented...the illustrations add further glory to a thorough historical analysis which is based on extensive research in Europe-wide sources... particularly useful in bringing to our attention lesser-known materials from the Iberian peninsula. The level of discussion, range and thoroughness of treatment and excellence of annotation make this a useful reference work for the academic historian too: it is hard to find any aspect of tournaments that is not covered."HISTORY
The first serious study of tournaments throughout Europe reveals their importance - in the training of the medieval knight, the development of arms and armour, as an instrument of political patronage, and as a grand public spectacle.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Boydell & Brewer, Incorporated
- : 01 June 1989
- : ---length:- '30'width:- '22'units:- Centimeters
- : books
Special Fields
- : Richard Barber; Juliet Barker
- : Hardback with dust jacket
- : 394/.7
- : 240